http://www.ncdoi.com/Media/media_home.asp Press Release en-us http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/020110b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today announced that Jonathan Sowers, a training specialist in the Department's Fire and Rescue Training and Inspections Division ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/020110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin announces that starting today all pyrotechnic operators in North Carolina must obtain ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/012910.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin urges North Carolina families to follow these safety tips to stay safe during and after the upcoming winter storm ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/012510c.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Aaron Pittman of Louisburg, and his wife, Mildred Diane Dew of Rocky Mount. Both are accused of an elaborate scheme to steal the life savings of an elderly woman ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/012510b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Frank P. D'Alonzo for allegedly terminating, without notice, group health insurance for the employees of Impact Athletics in Cary ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/012510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Gayland Anthony Oliver of Greensboro, on charges of submitting false claims to his insurance company ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/010510b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the federal subsidy program for COBRA coverage for involuntarily terminated workers has been extended ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/010510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Sheila Carol Williams. Department investigators allege that ... Williams used her position at N.C. Farm Bureau to steal ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/123109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin announces that beginning Jan. 1, N.C. landlords are required by law to install ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/121709b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Lamar Olin White, last known address is Raleigh, who filed a fraudulent insurance claim with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/121709.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Wendy C. McGuire, 31, 463 Union Grove Church Road, Fremont ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/121509b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the sentencing of the last defendant in an auto insurance fraud ring that spanned four years ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/121509.asp RALEIGH -- Emergency rooms see approximately 217,000 toy-related injuries each year. But the good news is ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/120109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Ashley Carrol Waddell of Greensboro on felony embezzlement and larceny charges ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/111809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the appointment of five new members ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/111709.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin wants to remind the state's 1.3 million Medicare recipients ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/110409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced additional indictments in the criminal investigation of Charles Mark Hall of Smithfield ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/110209b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today issued an update on the criminal investigations case involving insurance agent Jennifer Hughes Puckett ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/110209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the settlement of the workers compensation rate filings ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/102609.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Wanda Nichols Covington and her brother, Thomas Nichols Jr., both of Lewiston Woodville. According to the arrest warrant, Covington is accused of filing false paperwork Progressive Insurance Company ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/102209b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Kimberly Joyce Smithson of Garner on charges of larceny and breaking and entering, filing a false report, insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretenses ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/102209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Joseph Preston Alligood of Elizabeth City. Alligood, an independent insurance agent, is charged with 13 counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/101509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of three more people, which brings the total number of arrests in the Rowland Staged Accident Ring to seven ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/100709.asp RALEIGH -- More than 100 seniors pounded the pavement today at a relay event in Raleigh to kickoff a statewide enrollment campaign for Medicare's "Extra Help" low-income subsidy ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/100109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin urges North Carolinians to learn fire safety skills during Fire Prevention Week 2009 ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092509b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Earl Harvey Scott, Holly Springs. According to the arrest warrants, Scott lied to his insurance companies and claimed a total of $33,971.91 in fraudulent lightening damage ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092209b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Charles Mark Hall, Smithfield, on charges of embezzlement by an insurance agent and exploiting disabled or elder trust ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Pace Airlines CEO William Charles Rodgers, Liberty, Mo. Rodgers is charged with one count of willful failure to pay group health insurance premiums ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092109b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Heidi Michelle Flaherty of Advance. According to the arrest warrant, Flaherty filed a fraudulent insurance claim stating that she lost two diamond rings ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Jackie Lynn Braddy of Scotland Neck. According to the arrest warrant, Braddy filed a fraudulent insurance claim stating that his riding lawn mower had been stolen ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/091409b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of James William Rupard of Laurinburg, ... on charges he sold fake annuities to three victims ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/091409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Antonio Oneal Thorpe of Oxford, on charges of obtaining property by false pretense and unlicensed bail bonding. ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/090909.asp RALEIGH -- As many as 80 percent of all car seats are improperly installed ... This is especially scary because motor vehicle crashes are the No. 1 killer of children ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/090209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the receipt of the workers compensation rate filings from the North Carolina Rate Bureau ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/090109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Doranne Phillips Flynn, 53, of Southport. Flynn is charged with one count of willful failure to pay group insurance, a class H felony ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/082409b.asp RALEIGH -- Up to 25 percent of the more than 14 million unintentional injuries to children each year happen in and around schools ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/082409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Travis Lamond Draughn of Tarboro and Noah Freeman of Norfolk, Va. on charges of insurance fraud. Freeman and Draughn are father and son ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/082009.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Mamie L. Jackson and Delton L. Dorty, both of Durham ... accused of staging auto accidents ... an arrest warrant also has been issued for the arrest of Jackson's daughter ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/082009.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Shamea V. Hayes of Powellsville. Hayes is charged with one count of insurance fraud.... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/081809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of ... four Rowland residents ... all involved in staging traffic crashes .... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/081409b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Chinell Jray Blount ... of Durham ... on charges of insurance fraud and ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/081409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced today that just seven days after the General Assembly passed HB 1305, otherwise known as the Beach Plan Reform Bill, AAA Carolinas has announced ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/081009.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the distribution of $6.5 million to 661 former members of the Phoenix Fund, Inc... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/080509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the conviction of Vonna Johnson, Morganton, on seven counts of insurance fraud ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/073109b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of John Terry Leavelle, 30, Thomasville. According to Department investigators ... Leavelle visited 30 doctors for prescriptions ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/073109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the winners of four statewide awards from the Department's Seniors' Health Insurance Information Program, SHIIP, Division .... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/072409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin wants North Carolinians to be aware of a class-action settlement that some 304,995 consumers across the state may qualify for ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/072309.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the sentencing of six in an auto insurance fraud ring that spanned four years ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/071509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today signed a settlement with the North Carolina Rate Bureau that will roll back private passenger auto insurance rates to just under 2006 levels ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/070909.asp RALEIGH -- Eighteen children have died in hot cars so far this year, most in the Southeast ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/070209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of John Fitzgerald Haynes ... of Bessemer City ... who was charged with insurance fraud and one count of altering serial numbers. http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/062509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Massey Ray Bowser, 25, ... in what is commonly called an "owner give-up" ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/062409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Rhyan Neil Hammonds ... Hammonds filed a false disability claim through his employer ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/061809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that Senate Bill 957 was signed into law by the Governor ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/060909.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Ashley C. Waddell ... According to the investigation, Waddell ... took $89,314.52 in insurance claims payments ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/060309.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Rodique Androsly Quick ... after a year of evading investigators ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/052709.asp RALEIGH -- Hurricane season is just around the corner - it starts June 1 and lasts until Nov. 30 - and that's why ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/052109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that Michael A. Howell ... has pleaded guilty to 25 counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent. Howell is also charged with first degree murder ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/052009.asp RALEIGH -- Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of swim season, but this year there's been a change to your local pool ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/051809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Jessica Brandy Hinnant, 28, 612 S. First St., Smithfield ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/051509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Stanley J. Davis, Jr., 40, 367 Joe Brown Road, Woodland, on two counts of ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/051309.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced Carol Marklew Overby, 52, 6371 N.C. Highway 119 N., Leasburg ... http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/050409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Merlin Jerome Smith, 41, Yolanda Smith, 40, and Chadwick Mason, 21, all of 154 Lakeview Dr., Elizabethtown ...